Hog-ringing pliers.



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HOG R|NG ING PLlERS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24 1913.

1,1 83,703. I Patented May16, 1916.

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HOG-RINGING PLIERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed June 24, 1913. Serial No. 775,549.

Paris, in the county of Edgar and State of.

Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hog-Ringing Pliers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hog ringing pliers, and it has for its object to produce a device of this class embodying a magazine or automatic feeding device of simple and improved construction.

A further object of the invention is to produce a magazine or feeding device of simple and improved construction which may be readily applied to a hog ringing pliers for use in connection therewith.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device of the class described including a magazme supporting slide and means for adjusting and regulating the throw of said slide.

"With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation isnecessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claim may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawings,-Figure 1 is a plan view of the pliers without the magazine or feeding device. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the feeding device, detached. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view showing the magazine or feeding device in position on the pliers. Fig. 4: is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 4l in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 55 in Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a detail view in perspective showing the parts of the magazine separated and detached from each other. Fig. 7 is a plan view of one of the rings used in connection with the device.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The pliers of the improved device is composed of the members A, B which are connected pivotally by a pivot member C. Each of the members A and B comprises a handle portion 10 and a jaw member 11, said jaw members being normally forced apart by the action of a spring 12 interposed between the handle members. The movement of said handle members in the direction of each other is limited by a screw 13 extendmg through one handle member in the direction of its mate. The jaw members are provided with the ring receiving grooves or recesses 14: of suitable shape to receive the ring 15, the prongs or barbs of which, 16, by the action of the pliers will be bent, drlven through the cartilage of the snout of the animal to which the ring is to be applied and overlapped so as to secure the ring 1n position.

The feeding device comprises primarily a supporting member or slide 17 having a slot 18 engagmg the pivot member C which is of suitable construction and dimensions to support and retain the slide in position fiatwlse with respect to thepliers. The slide 17 1s provided near its rear end with an aperture 19 communicating with a narrow slot 20 running lengthwise of the slide. The slide is connected with the handle members of the pliers by links or toggles 21, each of whlch is connected at its outer end with a handle member by a pivot member 22 which pass through apertures 22' in the handle portions 10. The toggles are overlapped at their inner ends and are connected together and with the slide 17 by means of a screw 23 having a reduced portion 24: which, by partly unseating or withdrawing the screw, may be placed 1n registry with the slot 20. It will be evident that the toggles 21 serve to limit the spreading movement of the handle members 10 under the tension of the spring 12.

The slide 17 carries at its front end a frame 25 including a rearward ofiset 26 upon which the magazine core 27 is mounted and secured by means of a fastening member, such as a screw 28. The frame 25, the contour of which may be varied to correspond with the type of ring that is to be used, is provided at opposite sides thereof with upstanding flanges 29 which are spaced from the opposed walls of the core member 27 sufliciently to admit of the insertion therebetween of a stack of rings 15, the lowermost one of which when the slide 17 is retracted will be supported on the upper faces of the jaw members .1 of the pliers. Sup

ported on the topmost ring is a follower w ich surrounds the core member and which is pressed downwardly by the action of a flanges 29, the rings partly surrounding the core and being included between the flanges 1 and the core. The follower with the spring and the top member having been replaced in position, the device is nowready for operation. By compressing the handles 10 of the pliers against the tension of the spring 12 the ring seated in the groovesll may-.be clenched'in the snout carrying the magazine being meanwhile retracted by the action of the toggles 2l. When, after the application of a ring the handles are released, the slide 17 carrying the magazine will move forwardly until the lowermost ring ofthe stack drops into the recesses 14, where it will be in readiness for a repetition with; operation.

copies ot this patent may be =obtainecrfor five cents each, by addressing-the of a hog, the slide The device is simple in construction, inexpensive, easily applied to hog ringing pliers of conventionalconstruction and thoroughly eflicient in operation and useful for the purposes for which it is provided.

Having thus described the invention, what A hog ringing pliers, a magazine therefor, comprising a slide mounted for longitudinal movement on the body of the pliers and formed with anopening and a pair of oppositely arranged upstanding-1;, spaced flanges arranged partly around said-oped" a coresupported'on the slide and spaced mg, from the fiangesto'form a ring chamber 1n communlcatlon wlth sa1d-open1ng, a top core 1 and flanges, a spring surrounding the core and having one extremltyorlgidly. coneplate afollower surrounding the core and r of a width equalto the distance between said nected to said top-plate the other extremity rigidly connected to said follower and a top-plate. t

pm .i .and SlOtVCOIIHQCtIOIL between the core and 1 In testimony whereof "I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. ELzIE WHEELER,

Witnesses? y C. A. Gwm, PHILiP ALBRIGHT.

Washington, D. G.

Commissioner orPaten'ts; I 

